CronoDAS comments on A Rationalist's Bookshelf: The Mind's I (Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett, 1981) - Less Wrong

15 Post author: colinmarshall 26 August 2009 07:08PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 26 August 2009 10:19:19PM 0 points [-]

The reflection-less "Fiction" by Robert Nozick wraps the book. The piece at first seems to be narrated by a fictional character: indeed, its first sentence is "I am a fictional character." But this character goes on to assert that the reader, too, is a fictional character, and that this piece one fictional character reads and another narrates is, in fact, a work of non-fiction, as are all works — works within this fictional world in which we live, that is. But who, then, wrote (or currently writes) our world?

I'm reminded of the webcomic One Over Zero.